My Loc Journey - Year 1

[1BalancedBeauty]

I never thought I'd have the courage to start my locs or the discipline to maintain them.

I'm excited to share the first year of my loc journey!

http://youtu.be/H5G3Y6RCPXg

 

[Gr8ness83]

Great progress. Your locs definitely gained length and thickness (thickness galore). What made you decide to loc? I love them on other women but I don't think they would compliment my face/head/body or anything else that I have. You look beautiful, keep up whatever it is that has you growing and maintaining like you are...!

 

[1BalancedBeauty]

Great progress. Your locs definitely gained length and thickness (thickness galore). What made you decide to loc? I love them on other women but I don't think they would compliment my face/head/body or anything else that I have. You look beautiful, keep up whatever it is that has you growing and maintaining like you are...!

Thank you. I went natural almost 4 years ago and realized that I was wearing my hair in double-strand twists A LOT. They were easy to maintain, I liked the way they looked, and people would compliment me but -- once in a while -- they'd ask if my twists were locs.

After having people ask me if I was locking my hair over and over again, I just decided to give it a try.

 

[tolly]

your locs are beautiful. I have been flirting with the idea of locs for a few years, I ought to just get on with it.

 

[Harina]

your locs are beautiful. I have been flirting with the idea of locs for a few years, I ought to just get on with it.

Lol same here.

 

[C@ssandr@]

Which method did you use to start them? It looks like you were able to skip the "unintentional messy looking" phase...how did you manage that?

 

[1BalancedBeauty]

Which method did you use to start them? It looks like you were able to skip the "unintentional messy looking" phase...how did you manage that?

I started with 2 strand twists. My hair was unintentionally messy looking for a while and still is some days. When I get a certain amount of regrowth, my hair gets pretty big.

I think it was about 2 or 3 months into my loc journey when I posted a pic of what I considered to be messy hair on Instagram. Other people who had locs were commenting that they liked the look on me. I then decided to start wearing my hair like that to school instead of trying to pull it back/style it. My peers at school complimented me as well.

It was great because I started to really love my hair and lose the insecurity/stress I sometimes felt regarding maintaining it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that even though I have thick hair, I was never going for the 'big look'. It's unintentional but some see it as the look I go for.